OMG Chrismukkah! Best holiday episode of any show ever? Between Lindsay’s paternity revealed! and Kirsten’s speedy turnaround and Julie’s puzzling rage at Caleb for having committed adultery 16 years ago when she is in fact engaging in it right at that second with JIMMY, and Marissa doing something, that was totally not motivated by selfishness in any way at all, it’s already mind-boggling.

But then you add the yamaclaus! And it’s on this whole other plane of adorable. Lindsay is officially a-OK in my books, especially because her utter pointlessness was revoked in this episode. You’ll note that all the other new flames (including, lamently, Paul Rudd Jr. aka Zach, who suddenly showed flaws last week) were absent for Christmas. But Lindsay was front and centre, what with the obvious belonging to the core family. (Also, if the yamaclaus doesn’t show that she’s related to Seth, nothing does.)

Seth, on the other hand, is back in my good books. His love of Chrismukkah and niceness to his newly revealed aunt Lindsay and his being a decent guy who’s kind of hapless as opposed to the total self-absorbed idiot jackass man of previous weeks and holiday songs that are if I’m not mistaken sung to the tune of Death Cab songs?

Summer: obviously, saves Chrismukkah. I really like Summer now. She’s so bubbly. I really hated her during that whole Anna-Summer rivalry, because she was obviously the Veronica figure. Also, saved Chrismukkah.
(Because it was so important to Seth. Clearly, still in love with him.)

Can we talk about Jimmy for a minute? I mean, I guess up til now I liked him, in a sort of lovable loser/cute older man capable of cracking wise kind of way, but then all of a sudden something has occurred to me: I think Jimmy is a total idiot. The whole losing-everyone’s-money debacle of Season One wasn’t an isolated incident. There was the asking-Hailey-to-marry-him. Now, the whole reconciling with Julie Cooper-Nichol thing starts to make some sense. He’s a spoiled rich man who keeps screwing up and lets it roll off his back because he lives on a boat. He’s like a slightly smarter grown-up Luke. It all makes sense.

Plus I liked that “Maybe this Christmas will be…” song that was playing at some point.